Hearing a clip from Nikki Haley's launch speech today on the radio and something stuck out to me like a sore thumb. Her "age competency test pledge" disappoints on many levels. It's obvious red meat tossed out to the fools who believe Sleepy Joe drools into his tapioca every day, so I get that angle. But from someone who is supposedly a …
Hearing a clip from Nikki Haley's launch speech today on the radio and something stuck out to me like a sore thumb. Her "age competency test pledge" disappoints on many levels. It's obvious red meat tossed out to the fools who believe Sleepy Joe drools into his tapioca every day, so I get that angle. But from someone who is supposedly a rational adult (mostly?) non MAGA or at least MAGA-skeptic, if you dive into it a minute it becomes even more ludicrous. For starters, short of adopting a Constitutional Amendment requiring this sort of slectively-applied "mental test" which is laughable, both houses of Congress (which still has its fair share of aging gasbags like Grassley in it) would have to adopt it into rules, which would be temporary anyway. But let's say they were to happen to get something like this thru Congress. Who, exactly, would do such testing and who would even set the parameters as to what is mentally competent and what isn't? Does "politician" apply to Congress only, or to the POTUS and VPOTUS? Or Cabinet members? Or SCOTUS justices and the federal judiciary? You see the silly slippery slope here. It's one of the dumbest things I've heard a so-called serious politician propose since Trump occupied 1600 Pennsylvania.
Hearing a clip from Nikki Haley's launch speech today on the radio and something stuck out to me like a sore thumb. Her "age competency test pledge" disappoints on many levels. It's obvious red meat tossed out to the fools who believe Sleepy Joe drools into his tapioca every day, so I get that angle. But from someone who is supposedly a rational adult (mostly?) non MAGA or at least MAGA-skeptic, if you dive into it a minute it becomes even more ludicrous. For starters, short of adopting a Constitutional Amendment requiring this sort of slectively-applied "mental test" which is laughable, both houses of Congress (which still has its fair share of aging gasbags like Grassley in it) would have to adopt it into rules, which would be temporary anyway. But let's say they were to happen to get something like this thru Congress. Who, exactly, would do such testing and who would even set the parameters as to what is mentally competent and what isn't? Does "politician" apply to Congress only, or to the POTUS and VPOTUS? Or Cabinet members? Or SCOTUS justices and the federal judiciary? You see the silly slippery slope here. It's one of the dumbest things I've heard a so-called serious politician propose since Trump occupied 1600 Pennsylvania.